Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London Hardcover – January 1, 2005 by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
 
Discusses how the subject, incarcerated within madhouses after killing her mother, became the confidante of such Romantics as Coleridge and Wordsworth and accessed literature in a way that would have been normally impossible for a woman of her class and time, describing how she and essayist brother Charles Lamb collaborated on Tales from Shakespeare. 15,000 first printing.
 
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